Wrathall Mark wrote:

http://www.eet.com/story/OEG20000414S0050
This URL was cicrulated on the Fly5K newsgroup. Now all that is needed is to
replace that metal exhaust valve with an electic field, and the four stroke
might finally be nearly as sensible as the rotary.
Mark Wrathall

Maybe Siemens can do it right.  Sturman was the manufacturer of our high
speed electronic fuel injection for our diesel and the valves never worked
as advertised.  They had a "path to production" program with Navistar as
early as 5 years ago that didn't materialize because the technology was not
mature enough.  Navistar dumped about $100M into development of fuel
injection stuff with Sturman (including their own testing) and ultimately
had an ugly battle to shift the program to Siemens to *maybe* see a return
on their investment.

Jeff Spitzer

This is the high pressure electronic fuel injector Jeff is
referring to. Picture taken at the Detroit Auto Show last year.


Paul Lamar
 
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